Number Paintings

Jasper Johns, Charles Demuth, and Robert Indiana are just a few well known artists that have created number paintings in their careers. Our 2nd graders learned about those three artists and observed their number paintings.  From there, we choose a number 0-9 that was meaningful to us (ie: birthday, age, siblings, favorite number, etc). The students drew out their number and created designs around it with pencil. We also discussed how warm colors advance and cool colors recede.  The 2nd graders used many different colors of tempera paint to carry out their design. Once the paintings were completed, we touched up our line work with permanent marker.